Georgina's Raw Journey

Once I had an experience of being on a raw diet for 30 days. So I was astonished on the 10th day when I bought just regular tomatoes. Their taste was overwhelming. I never knew that tomatoes can have any taste at all. But that taste I will never forget, it was like they advertise "Bounty - the taste of paradise" . I just melted in the taste. It had a little bit of sweetness, a little bit of sourness and even a touch of salt. But together those tastes created a unique blow-minding flavor. And for the rest of those 30 days I enjoyed tomatoes and other fruits and veggies a lot. I started to notice mere nuances in taste. And I could easily distinguish so-called "organic" food from not organic. Not organic tomato, for instance, is less rich and actually pretty dull in its taste.

I think very often the organic tomato tastes better not because it is organic but because the growers of organic tomatoes grow plants that have flavour rather than ones that produce less tasty fruits all the same size and weight!

I grow tomatoes in the garden and also there are some plum tomatoes in the porch. They are grown "organically" but would never get an organic certificate but they will taste nicer than even the organic ones from the shops.

I'm lucky in that I have always loved fruit and veg and so even when I was eating a terrible cooked diet, I would still enjoy large amounts of fruit and veg.